The Aethyra guys tried to color the skintone of the player characters dynamically and the result looks more like a zombie. I think the main problem is that Modanung used a very diverse color palette for the skin. Projecting it onto a dyeable gradient is very hard (although not impossible in theory).

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Eitherway I think that if people want different skin, it'd be better to create it separately based on the old sprite rather then just recolor it. Different skincolors should go along with different facial characteristics and possibly even different hairstyles. Otherwise it will always look as if they used bodypaint.